> The only cost is then the electricity and used capacity. Not consumer pricing. So negligible.

I don’t think this is valid, as this point seems to ignore the fact that the data center that this compute took place in required a massive investment.

A paper like this is more akin to HEPP research. Nobody has the capability to reproduce the higgs results outside of at the facility the research was conducted within (CERN).

I don’t think reproduction was a concern of the researchers.